Amazon ML Challenge 2026 Team & ML Stack Architect

1. Team Composition & Eligibility

3 Members

Team Name

Roster (Strictly 3–4 Members) Cross-College Allowed

Eligibility Rules Check

Team Size: 3 or 4 members strictly

Programs: B.E./B.Tech, M.E./M.Tech, M.S. or PhD only

Graduation Year: Must be 2027 or 2028

AWS Builder Center: Valid Profile ID required per student

One student can participate in only one team

Target: F1-Macro / NDCG

Select ML Model Components

LightGBM Baseline

Fast gradient boosting on engineered tabular & text TF-IDF tokens. (Latency: 6ms)

PyTorch Feature Extractor

Fine-tuned MiniLM / DeBERTa sequence embeddings for semantic parsing. (Latency: 28ms)

Ensemble Stacker

Multi-fold out-of-fold blending with Logistic Regression meta-classifier. (Latency: 8ms)

ResNet Vision Backing

Multimodal image embedding pass for catalog product assets. (Latency: 45ms)

Verification & Simulation Telemetry

Eligibility Status Eligible (3 Valid Members, Cross-College Approved)

Simulated Benchmark Score 0.8842 NDCG

Estimated P95 Latency 42 ms

Challenge Readiness Sprint Ready

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